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A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the way in which we think about our conceptual system and puts forward a number of questions related to its essential structures in terms of their schematicity. It is proposed that image schemas, domains, frames and mental spaces are interconnected in metaphorical conceptualization. A detailed analysis of the source domain of building is carried out in order to pin down the kind of distinctions that we may postulate regarding its operation with a view to depicting the functioning of the system. The multi-layered view of metaphor is advanced, which can accommodate many aspects of metaphor and account for a number of metaphor-related phenomena in a unified manner.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the way in which we think about our conceptual system and puts forward a number of questions related to its essential structures in terms of their schematicity. It is proposed that image schemas, domains, frames and mental spaces are interconnected in metaphorical conceptualization. A detailed analysis of the source domain of building is carried out in order to pin down the kind of distinctions that we may postulate regarding its operation with a view to depicting the functioning of the system. The multi-layered view of metaphor is advanced, which can accommodate many aspects of metaphor and account for a number of metaphor-related phenomena in a unified manner.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
  4. Figurativeness all the way down 1
  5. Part I. Figurativeness and theory
  6. Metaphor thoughtfully 13
  7. Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
  8. A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
  9. Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
  10. Intensification via figurative language 91
  11. Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
  12. Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
  13. Metonymy meets coercion 151
  14. Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
  15. Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
  16. Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
  17. Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
  18. Figures of speech revisited 225
  19. Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
  20. The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
  21. Index 309
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
This chapter is in the book Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.9.03kov

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
  4. Figurativeness all the way down 1
  5. Part I. Figurativeness and theory
  6. Metaphor thoughtfully 13
  7. Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
  8. A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
  9. Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
  10. Intensification via figurative language 91
  11. Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
  12. Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
  13. Metonymy meets coercion 151
  14. Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
  15. Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
  16. Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
  17. Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
  18. Figures of speech revisited 225
  19. Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
  20. The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
  21. Index 309
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